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Luis de Potoft, St., a city of Mexico, in the province of 

 Guafteca, pleafatitly fituatcd, and environed with rich gold 

 mines. Tlie town is handfome and well built, conlidcrable in 

 fize, and populous. The ilreets are flraiglit and neat, the 

 churches magnificent ; and the inhabitants, who arc chiefly 

 Indians, poflefiinsr all the conveniencies and comforts of life ; 

 190 miles N.N. W. of Mexico. N. lat. 2 2 25'. W. long. 

 10,?" 6'. 



Luis de Zacatecas, a town of Mexico, capital of the pro- 

 vince of Zacatecas, the fee of a birtiop, and reiidence of a 

 governor; 240 miles N.N. W. of Mexico. N. lat. 22" 50'. 

 W. long. 103^ 46'. 



LUI-SHIN, in Mythology, the Jupiter of the Chincfe, 

 or fpirit that prefides over thunder. The figure of it has 

 the wings, beak, and talons of an eagle. In his right hand 

 he holds a mallet, to ftrike the kettle-drums with which he 

 is furrounded, whofe noife is intended to convey the idc;: of 

 thunder ; while his left is filled with a volume of undulating 

 lines, very much refembling thofe in the hands of fome of 

 the Grecian Jupiters, and evidently meant to convey the 

 fame idea, v'i%. that of the thunder-bolts, and lightning. 



LUISIANA, in Geography, a diftriftof Spain, in Anda- 

 lufia, three leagues from Ecija, fettled in 1791 by a colony 

 of Germans, who built houfes in an uniform plan, allotting 

 to each houfe a portion of land, which conftituted a village ; 

 but the honfes are already beginning to fall into ruin. 



LUISINUS, Louis, in Biography, a phyfician, was 

 born at Udina, in the ftate of Venice, where he obtained 

 confiderable reputation about the middle of the fixtcenth 

 century, and was not lefs diftinguifhed by his acquifitions in 

 literature, than by his medical Ikill. He was author ot the 

 following works : " Aphorifmi Hippocratis hexametro car- 

 mine confcripti," Venice, 1552 ; " De compefcendis ani- 

 mi affeftibus per moralem philofophiam et medendi artem, 

 Traftatus in tres Libros divifus," Bafle, 1562; " Aphro- 

 difiacus, five de Lue Venerea, in duos Tomos bipartitus, 

 eontinens omnia qusecumque haftenus de hac re funt ab om- 

 nibus Medicis confcripta,'' Venice, 1566, foho. The firll 

 volume contained an account of the printed treatifes on the 

 lues up to that year ; the fecond, publifhed the year follow.- 

 ing, comprehended principally the manufcript works on the 

 fubjetl, which had not then been committed to the prefs. 

 Eloy Did. Hift. de la Medecine. 



LUISNANSBERG, in Geography, a town of Sweden, 

 in Weftmanland ; 48 miles N.W. of Stroemlholm. 



LUJULA, in Botany, &c. See OxALl.s Acetofella. 



LUK, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 

 of Saatz ; 6 miles E. of Carlfbad. 



LUKAU, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Znaym ; 

 eight miles W.N.W. of Znaym. 



LUKAWETZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Czaflau ; 28 miles S.W. of Czaflau. 



LUKE, St , in Sacred Biography, one of the evangelifts, 

 and the writer of the gofpel bearing his name, and alfo of 

 the book of the Afls of the ApolUes. Concerning his pro- 

 fefllon and country, previonfly to his converfion to Chrifti- 

 anity, there is a difference of opinion among both ancient 

 and modern authors. The firll mention of him in the books 

 of the New Teftament occurs in his own hiftory. ( Adts, xvi. 

 10, II.) When the apoftie Paul was again, a fecond time, 

 in Greece, it appears, from Afts, xx. 1 — 6, that St. Luke 

 ■was with him ; and that he acccompanied Paul from 

 Greece through Macedonia to Philippi, and went with him 

 from thence to Troas. It further appears from the fequcl 

 of the hiftory in the Afts, that he accompanied the apoftie 

 to Jerufalem, and remained wiih him there. When the 



apoftie was fent a prifoner from Ceefarea to Romp, Luke 

 was in the fame (liip with him, and ilaid with him at Rome 

 during the whole interval of his two years' imprifonment in 

 that city. Of this faft wc have alfo collateral evidence from 

 the epiiiles of St. Paul written at this time. (2 Tim. iv. 11. 

 Philem. v. 24.) And if Luke the beloved phyfician, men- 

 tioned Col. iv. 14, be the evangeliR, this patf.ige affords 

 additional proof of his being then with the apolUe. Some 

 have alfo fuppofed that he is the perfon mentioned 

 2 Cor. viii. 18, as "the brother, whofe praife is in the gofpel 

 throughout allthe churches.'' Dr. Lardner, with his ufual 

 indullry and accuracy, has collefted the teftinionies of vari- 

 ous ancient writers concerning the evangelift Luke; and 

 from thefe he deduces feveral inferences that fcrve to fettle 

 his profeffion and country, and to corre£l the miftakes of 

 other authors. The notion which fome have entertained, 

 that he was a painter, is without fo\indation, as it is not coun- 

 tenanced by ancient writers. The learned Grotius and 

 J. Wctllein have fuggefted, that he was a Syrian and a 

 Have, either at Rome, or in Greece ; and that having ob- 

 tained his freedom, he returned to his native place, Antioch ; 

 where he became a Jewifh profelyte, and then a Chriftian. 

 This opinion is alfo rcjcfted by our author ; who obferves, 

 that the account given of this evangelift by Eufcbius, and 

 by Jerom after him, that he was a Syrian, and a native of 

 Antioch, is not fupported by the authority of Irenius, 

 Clement of Alexandria, TertuUian, or Origen, nor indeed 

 by any other writer before Eufebius. Cave and Mill have 

 intimated, that Luke was converted by Paul at Antioch ; 

 but it is alleged, on the other hand, that if Luke had been 

 a Gentile, converted by Paul, he would have been always 

 uncircumcifed, and unfit to be the companion of Paul. 

 For the apoftie would not have allowed the Greeks or Gen- 

 tiles of Antioch, or any other place, to fubmit to that 

 rite. Befides, no hints occur in the Afts, or in the epiftle 

 ot St. Paul, that Luke was his convert. It has been 

 doubted by feveral learned men, whether the evangelift Luke 

 was a phyfician. Dr. Lardner allows, that the diftinguifh- 

 ing charafter of "beloved phyfician" (Col. iv. 14.) has 00 

 caConed a difficulty, which, however, he thinks, is not in- 

 fuperable ; and he conceives it probable, that Luke the 

 evangehft was by profeffion a phyfician. That St. Luke 

 was a Jew by birth, or at leaft by religion, our author argues 

 from his being a conftant companion of Paul m many places, 

 particularly at Jerufalem. If he had been an uncircum- 

 cifed Gentile, fome exceptions would have been made to 

 him, which we do not find from St. Paul's epiftles, or 

 the AiSs, to have been the cafe ; and befides, he follows the 

 Jewifti computations of times, fuch as the paffover, the 

 pentecoft, and the faft. (See Afts, xii. 3. xx. 6. 16. xxvii. 9.) 

 In this opinion, that St. Luke was a Jew, many learned and 

 judicious moderns, as Mr. L Bafnage and J. A. Fabricius, 

 concur ; and Dr. Lardner thinks, that it ought not to be 

 queftioned. Moreover, he was probably an early Jewifh be- 

 liever, foon after Chrift's afcenficn, if not a hearer of 

 Chritt, and one of the 70 difciples. The moft ancient 

 writers fpeak of Luke as a difciple of the apoftles. Some 

 have reckoned him one of the Seventy, others have thought 

 him to be Lucius, mentioned by St Paul in the epiltle to the 

 Romans, and others have fuppofed, that he was one of the 

 two difciples that met Jefus in the way to Emmaus. If 

 Lucius be the evangelift Luke, which is an opinion adopted 

 by feveral learned writers, we may conclude, that he was a 

 Jew, and related to the apoftie. We may know his charac- 

 ter, and, in part, his hiftory, from Adts, xi. 19 — 21, and 

 xih. 1 — 4. He was an early Jewiftt believer after Chrift'j 



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